[Foundation-l] [OT] Top posting

[Dan Rosenthal]

Especially since nearly all modern email clients have color coding,  
indenting, and other ways of distinguishing who posted what in what  
order, makind top posting not much of an issue.

-Dan
On Apr 30, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Mark Williamson wrote:

> From that article: "While top-posting is sometimes recommended
> against, it is the more common style in business email
> correspondence."
>
> Why complain about something that is common practice? With most e-mail
> clients, it will take an extra effort to do what you suggest, and I
> see no reason to do so.
>
> Mark
>
> 2008/4/30 Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com>:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting
>>
>> For what it's worth, I would find it productive if some participants
>> on this list thought about sometimes *not* top-posting, but trimming
>> the message they're responding to so as to make it clear *what* and
>> *who* it is they're responding to. In threads with 50+ emails and
>> delayed responses, it makes reading much easier.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Delphine
>>
>> --
>> ~notafish
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